Jun 7, 2016

The loser who never gave up! (Charles Schulz)

Charles Schulz (November 26, 1922–February 12, 2000)

When he was a little boy his uncle called him “Sparky”, after a
comic-strip horse named Spark Plug. School was all but impossible for
Sparky. He failed every subject in the eighth grade. He flunked physics in
high school, getting a grade of zero. He also flunked Latin, algebra and
English. And his record in sports wasn’t any better. Though he did
manage to make the school’s golf team, he promptly lost the only
important match of the season. Oh, there was a consolation match; he
lost that too.

Throughout his youth, Sparky was awkward socially. It wasn’t that the
other students disliked him; it’s just that no one really cared all
that much. In fact, Sparky was astonished if a classmate ever said hello
to him outside of school hours. There’s no way to tell how he might
have done at dating. He never once asked a girl out in high school. He
was too afraid of being turned down… or perhaps laughed at. Sparky was a
loser.
He, his classmates… everyone knew it. So he learned to live with
it. He made up his mind early that if things were meant to work out,
they would. Otherwise he would content himself with what appeared to be
his inevitable mediocrity.

One thing WAS important to Sparky, however — drawing. He was proud of
his artwork. No one else appreciated it. But that didn’t seem to matter
to him. In his senior year of high school, he submitted some cartoons
to the the yearbook. The editors rejected the concept. Despite this
brush-off, Sparky was convinced of his ability. He even decided to
become an artist.

So, after completing high school, Sparky wrote Walt Disney Studios.
They asked for samples of his artwork. Despite careful preparation, it
too was rejected. One more confirmation that he was a loser.
But Sparky still didn’t give up. Instead, he decided to tell his own
life’s story in cartoons.
The main character would be a little boy who
symbolized the perpetual loser and chronic underachiever. You know him
well. Because Sparky’s cartoon character went on to become a cultural
phenomenon of sorts. People readily identified with this “lovable
loser.” He reminded people of the painful and embarrassing moments from
their own past, of their pain and their shared humanity.

The character
soon became famous worldwide: “Charlie Brown.” And Sparky, the
boy whose many failures never kept him from trying, whose work was
rejected again and again,… is the highly successful cartoonist Charles
Schultz.
His cartoon strip, “Peanuts,” continues to inspire
books, T-shirts and Christmas specials, reminding us, as someone once
commented, that life somehow finds a way for all of us, even the losers.

"Sparky’s story reminds us of a very important principle in life.
We all face difficulty and discouragement from time to time. We also
have a choice in how we handle it. If we’re persistent, if we hold fast
to our faith, if we continue to develop the unique talents God has given
us, who knows what can happen? We may end up with an insight and an
ability to inspire that comes only through hardship. In the end, there
are no “losers” with God. Some winners just take longer to develop!"-CAPT J. David Atwater

Charles Schulz (November 26, 1922–February 12, 2000)

About Charles Schulz’s cartoon:

The Peanuts Cartoon

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written
and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950,
to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward.
The strip is the most popular and influential in the history of the
comic strip, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it “arguably
the longest story ever told by one human being”, according to Robert
Thompson of Syracuse University. At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600
newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was
translated into 21 languages.

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